It got us thinking which other confectionery from yesteryear we’d like to see return to our shelves.

In the week that World Chocolate Day (July 7) celebrates its ninth birthday, here’s a look at 15 extinct chocolate bars that you may have forgotten about – but will pretty soon be craving once more.

Fuse

(Picture: Cadbury)

Throwing raisins, nuts, cereal pieces and fudge into the chocolate mix, Fuse certainly lived up to its name.

It was once so popular that it was even promoted to Cadbury’s crowning glory – the Miniature Heroes.

Sadly, after a 10-year run, the bar was discontinued in 2006.

It was briefly resurrected for a Halloween campaign in 2015.

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Flake Snow

(Picture: Cadbury)

One of several variations on the crumbliest, tastiest chocolate, this turn-of-the-century product saw Cadbury put their white chocolate into a standard Flake.

Originally called the Snowflake, It’s also one of the few chocolate bars to make headline news – Anthea Turner and Grant Bovey were accused of cheapening the sanctity of marriage when they were pictured promoting it (inadvertently they claim) at their wedding.

Dream

The Dream also went the way of the Flake Snow, despite a high-profile tie-in with Coronation Street.

Cadbury’s white chocolate answer to the Dairy Milk was creamier and arguably tastier than Nestle’s finest, but the power of the Milkybar Kid proved to be too strong.

Secret

(Picture: Rowntree’s)

With its-gold coloured wrapping and elegant TV ad campaign, the Secret – essentially Rowntree’s take on the Walnut Whip without the walnut – was considered as one of the early 90s classiest sweet treats.

Unfortunately, it remained too much of a best-kept secret and the bar was withdrawn in 1994.

Applause

Applause brought something new to the table when it was launched in 1989 – the good old apple.

There might not have been enough among the chocolate, raisins and soft caramel to count as your five-a-day.

But with its wholemeal biscuit base, it was surely still one of the healthiest chocolate options out there.

Cabana

Combining caramel and chocolate with cherries and coconut, Rowntree’s Cabana was one of the more exotic chocolate bars to launch in the 80s.

But it’s perhaps best remembered for its ridiculous tropical-themed TV advert.

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Rumba

Now this is proper old-school. Cadbury’s Rumba was a two-stick chocolate bar which was marketed for adults due to its unique flavouring of rum.

As its chocolate-brown wrapping suggested, the Rumba was the kind of chocolate bar that could only ever have existed in the 1970s.

Amazin’ Raisin Bar

(Picture: Cadbury)

Rum was also a central ingredient to the fruit-filled chocolate bar that no doubt got grammar pedants all in a tizz in the 1970s.

The Amazin’ Raisin Bar also threw caramel, nougat, and, of course, raisins into the mix.

Back in the day cost just 5p!

Spira

(Picture: Cadbury)

The Spira was undoubtedly the quintessential chocolate bar if you liked dipping them in your cup of tea.

Essentially two Cadbury’s chocolate fingers spiralled into straws, the Spira was once the North West’s second most popular chocolate bar, but by 2005 had fallen way behind the similarly tea-dunking-friendly Twirl.

Fry’s Five Centre

From 1934 until 1992, it was possible to consume all five of these flavours in one bar thanks to the Fry’s Five Centres, a novel chocolate bar which contained a different taste explosion with each piece.

Aztec

Once a rival to the mighty Mars bar, the Aztec offered a similar mix of chocolate, caramel and nougat.

But, like the empire it was named after, its power eventually crumbled and it was taken off the shelves for good in 1978.

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Texan

(Picture: Texan)

A man’s gotta chew what a man’s gotta chew!

Long before the Yorkie controversially declared itself off-limits to women, the Texan was the considered the ultimate in manly confectionary.

The chocolate-covered toffee and nougat bar was voted the UK’s favourite in a 2005 poll, but, apart from a limited-edition relaunch hasn’t been available to buy since the 1980s.